How to specify Action "status"

The “status” dropdown for GitHub Actions shows a lot of status codes:

But from what I can tell, the core API only supports “success” (default) and “failure” (by way of core.setFailed()). ¹

What about all of the others though? For example, “action required”.

Presumably my action could set the process.exitCode directly but that seems fragile for a few reasons (e.g. the status codes may change, the core library may override this value after a task completes, etc.)

¹ The README notes that core.setNeutral() is planned but not yet supported, but that seems like it may no longer be true (https://github.com/actions/toolkit/issues/146).

[jalaziz]

We have a need for the neutral status that isn’t really satisfied with skipping or cancelling. We would like to warn the users that their commit messages may be missing information. However, that information is optional and shouldn’t block a PR from being merged if it’s intentionally missing. A skipped or success status gives the wrong impression.

[joshmgross]

Thanks @jalaziz for the feedback and additional context, I’d recommend adding your use-case and context to https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/662